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Connor Zilisch & Shane van Gisbergen Put on a Show | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Sunday morning, everybody. Louis, you want to say hi to
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  everybody? Louis, the legend say hello.
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  Big birthday party today here at the house for our grandbaby
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  Lila, 2 year old, two years old. So I asked my daughter Brittany.
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  I said, Brittany, I said, is this birthday party for you or
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  Lila? Everybody laughed.
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  So what? Going to be a big time around
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  here today. They say little rain moving in,
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  but I think we can beat it because it's going to start the
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  big party. Going to start at 11.
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  All right, everybody. Last night in Peebley, Missouri
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  at Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park, we had a slow start.
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  We finished third in our heat race and that lined us up 8th
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  for the A main. It's the A main event.
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  I think I heard that off of one of those little, you know,
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  games. It's the A main event.
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  So we started 8th and we drove extremely hard and my car was
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  handling very well. Pulled a couple wheelies out
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  here. The crowd was on her feet.
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  They said your car wheeled it up.
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  I said wing, wing, wing, wing. You peeled out like John Force.
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  Of course I drove the out of it. I always tell people when my
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  car's there for me, I look like a 20 year old when it's not.
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  When the car's not handling, I look like I'm 62 because that's
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  how old I am. Finished second, started 8th and
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  got to 2nd last night. So that was a really good
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  weekend for us. Finished second at Tri-City
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  Speedway on Friday night over there in Granite City, and then
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  a second last night at Pevely, Missouri Federated Auto Parts
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  Raceway Park. All right, yesterday they ran
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  the Xfinity race out there in Sonoma.
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  Really interesting area. Kim and I have spent a lot of
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  money. Well, I didn't mean, I didn't
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  mean we spent a lot of money, but we spent a lot of time.
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  We spent a lot of time in the Sonoma Winery area.
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  We really like it. And Kim learned of some wines
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  out there back in the day. I, I don't drink anything
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  anymore. I don't, I drink 0 liquor.
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  I think we're, I think about when Nick Hoffman was here a
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  couple couple weeks ago, I drink some neutral and that was OK.
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  But we learned a lot about wine out there in Sonoma.
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  And we we've been all through those hills and we ran a lot of
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  NASCAR cup races out of Sonoma. So I love that area.
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  The race tracks beautiful. And man, that whole race track
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  is really nice and it's got it going on.
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  So in the Xfinity race, it was against the old man SVG who is
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  not an old man, but he's way older than Connor Zillich.
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  Connor Zillich 18 years old. And I, I know about Connor
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  Zillich, but I don't know a lot about him.
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  I'm assuming if I was going to do a Kenny conversation with
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  with Connor Zillich, I don't know how long it would last
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  because he's only 18 years old. Maybe it lasts 30-40 minutes.
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  You start interviewing somebody a lot older than you got a lot
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  more live to talk about. But this Connor Zillich, hey,
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  remember when I said you can tell when you're on your way
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  out? Remember, because I said, you
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  know, they don't have Justin Allgar on the Xfinity Flyers
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  anymore. I guess NASCAR knows what
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  they're doing. They, they've been putting this
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  Connor Zillich up front for everything.
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  You know, if you're in the Xfinity Series, it can, it can
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  kind of piss you off. It's like, hey, I'm the one been
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  here forever. I'm the one put my time in.
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  And now they've been putting Connor Zillich on all these
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  advertisements right up front. Well, now we know why.
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  Somebody at NASCAR, they knew what the hell they was doing.
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  This Connor Zillich does something yesterday that's
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  unbelievable. So well before the Xfinity race
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  and over the last two weeks. Well, yeah, yeah, actually last
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  three weeks because Shane van Gisbergen, SVG we call him, he
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  won the race at Mexico City. He won the Chicago St. course
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  race. He's won it all.
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  And people have been saying we haven't seen any road course
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  racer come along like this in a long time.
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  So it's, it's fair to say SVG is like the greatest of all time.
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  That's what people are saying now.
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  A lot of fans are getting jealous.
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  They're getting mad. I've been looking at the
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  timeline actually, Jeff Gluck. Jeff Gluck made a post on social
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  media saying, my God, people, because there's fans that are
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  mad that media is giving SVG all this attention.
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  So that extended race gets rolling yesterday and come to
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  find out this 18 year old Connor Zilich holds off and wins over
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  SVG. Now I got a little bit to say
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  about it, but I want to say this now.
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  Now what did the people jump the gun?
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  Because there was a lot of fans jealous that the media was
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  giving SVG all his attention. And now this 18 year old kid
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  beats SVG, outruns him. Excuse me, Outruns him.
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  I'll say one thing about this Connor Zilich.
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  He's an awesome kid and I like him a lot.
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  And I think I've told you all why I like Connor.
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  Connor came up to me at Rockingham and asked me, Herman,
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  I hear you are good here. How do you get around here?
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  Of course it made the old man feel real good and I told him,
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  but I'm a big Connor Zillich fan because I've experienced time
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  around Connor. I really like him, but I'm
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  starting to learn some things. You know, he's part of the Red
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  Bull club and Max Verstappen, who's like a four time Formula
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  One champion, Max Verstappen High 5 Connor Zillich and
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  stopped and talked to him. So this Connor Zillich is
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  worldwide? Yeah.
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  Pit bull's not the only Mr. Worldwide.
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  Sounds to me like Connor Zilich is also Mr. Worldwide.
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  Respond right here. Tell me all about this Connor
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  Zilich. I mean, does he race all over
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  the world? At 18 years old, it's like he's
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  already done it all. By the way, if you made it this
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  far, shout out to Keelan Harvick at 13 years old, outrunning his
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  dad. I don't care. 13 years old,
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  QuickTime in the Cars Pro Stock race at Hickory, I think.
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  I think Keelan is awesome. Love the kid.
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  I was just kind of waiting for him to get out of diapers, you
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  know? But damn, here he is, 13 years
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  old, already outrun Kevin, Kevin said after the race.
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  Kevin goes. He's just damn fast.
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  So none of it's fake anybody, none of it's fake Keelan Harvick
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  at 13 years old as fast and this Connor Zillig outruns SVG at 18
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  years old. Now I want to give a shout out
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  to SVG too. SVG come down through the s s
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  and basically had Connor lifted up in the ass.
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  He he had Connor Zilligs like this down through the S S and
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  Connor could erect that damn thing at any time.
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  And I really liked it that SVG went to Victor Lane and
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  congratulated Connor Zilich. I was talking to Kenny Schrader
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  about it last night at Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park and I
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  said, well, that's some good Herman Schrader for us right
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  there. So we're going to talk about SVG
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  and Connor Zilich and break that race down a little bit more.
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  But I asked Schrader, listen, I wonder how, how come SVG just
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  like didn't didn't wreck him like they do nowadays?
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  Schrader was right. He said, hey, he said he did
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  everything but move him right on out of the way.
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  And I said I he really did. He said I was real.
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  I said I was really impressed with SVG.
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  He kind of, he kind of wheelbarrowed Connor.
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  He kind of lifted you up an ass and kind of stayed with it for a
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  minute. I forgot and so did you.
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  They were teammates. Connor Zilich and SVG were
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  teammates. They both drove for Junior
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  Motorsports. And that's why it was really
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  nice to see SVG go to Victor Lane.
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  And I could tell it was pure. It was pure.
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  You can tell when people are faking it.
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  I like that SVG, he's a pretty good mate from New Zealand.
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  All right, everybody have a great, great Sunday.